New NASA Processor can operate at 500*C

[Blitersety]

"NASA chip can take the heat: 1,700 hours of continuous operation at 500 degrees Celsius"

Full story:

DailyTech - NASA Develops Extreme Heat-resistant Computer Chips

 

[b1gapl]

Already posted:
http://www.techist.com/forums/f6/nasa-develops-extreme-heat-resistant-computer-chips-153685/

Anyway, this section gets more attention.

That is awesome, that they tolerate that much heat. I wonder how it will affect the other components around it, putting out that much heat.

 

[dario03]

I want one of those. I think I would put it in a wood case

 

[SYL\X/3K]

i wouldn't be surprised if the capacitors blow up because of the heat

 

[Grievearz]

I have a feeling they designed these to operate at 500*C as opposed to being able to produce 500*C. Thats some serious hardware, I wonder what kind of applications they have in mind for it.

 

[Invisible]

must be designed for terabytes of applications